Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85033035
Found in 432 Collections and/or Records:
Robert Jemison, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0753
Abstract
The Robert Jemison, Jr. Papers span the period from 1797 to 1960 and include both the personal and business papers of Robert Jemison Jr., along with papers of Robert Jemison (grandfather), William Jemison (father), Priscilla Jemison (wife), Cherokee Jemison Hargrove (daughter), and Andrew Coleman Hargrove (son-in-law), and Robert Jemison Jr. (IV) of Birmingham (1878-1973). Included are the records of his grist and lumber mills, plantations, stage line, the Tuskaloosa Plank Road, toll bridges,...
Dates:
1797 - 1973
Robert Ould letter, 1869 July 13
File — Box WSC001: [1006241611], Folder: W 0129.07
Scope and Contents
In a one page letter dated July 13, 1869, from Robert Ould to Henry A. Wise, president of the Southern Association, Ould resigned his position as director of the association. The Southern Association was a Virginia benevolent organization established to support widows and orphans of Confederate soldiers.
Dates:
1869 July 13
Charles Robinson papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0161
Overview
Letters concerning Robinson's request for a commission in the "colored service" of the U.S. Army during the Civil War.
Dates:
1864-1865
Roger Hertz Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4167
Overview
Almost daily letters written by Hertz and his family between 1944 and 1946 while he was serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
Dates:
1944 - 1946
Bert Rogers letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3616
Overview
Letter written to Rogers' brother
Dates:
1904 June 22
Roland Lee Adams papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0011
Abstract
This collection includes documents related to the army service of this York, Alabama, native; an essay; a biographical sketch; and three miscellaneous letters.
Dates:
1891- circa 1919
S. R. Norton letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1059
Abstract
Letters of a Union soldier in the 18th Michigan Infantry to his wife, written from Decatur, Stevenson, and Huntsville, Alabama and Nashville, Tennessee, during the Civil War.
Dates:
1864-1865
Leverett Saltonstall papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1225
Overview
Letters between Ralph Cowert and U.S. Senator Leverett Saltonstall about Saltonstall's family for the Tuscaloosa Historical Society
Dates:
1963
Samuel D. Cameron and Maxwell A. Cameron Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0264
Overview
Papers, primarily letters, of two Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, brothers, Samuel D. Cameron, 2nd Alabama Cavalry and Maxwell A. Cameron, 18th Alabama Infantry Regiment, to their sister, Sarah, and brother-in-law, Isham Robertson, during the Civil War. Additional materials include financial documents and other family letters.
Dates:
1858-1884; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1864
John C. C. Sanders papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1229
Overview
Contains copies of diaries, letters of correspondence, and newspapers.
Dates:
1896-1906
Schaudies and Banks Families Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4190
Overview
Papers of two prominent mixed-race families in north Alabama.
Dates:
unknown
Jennie B. Scott Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4108
Overview
Papers of a freeborn African American family who lived in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama, in the latter half of the nineteenth century and through the mid-1960s
Dates:
1910-1965
Armistead I. Selden Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1244
Abstract
Papers of this Greensboro, Alabama, native who served Alabama in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1953-1969 and was appointed U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, and Western Samoa in 1974.
Dates:
1953-1979
Septimus D. Cabaniss papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0252
Abstract
Legal and personal papers of the Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, attorney, S.D. Cabaniss, who served as executor for the estate of Samuel Townsend. Also includes materials of other Huntsville attorneys and of the S.D. Cabaniss family.
Dates:
1820-1937
Shackelford and McMahon papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1256
Overview
Contains account records, letters of correspondence, and contracts.
Dates:
1830-1860s
Shelby Iron Company correspondence during the Civil War
Collection
Identifier: W-0071
Overview
Correspondence, contracts, and receipts related to the production of iron at the Shelby Iron Works from 1863-1865.
Dates:
1863-1865
Sheldon C. Treat Civil War Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4235
Overview
Sheldon C. Treat was a Union soldier in the US Civil War as part of the Fourth Iowa Infantry. This collection includes twenty-one letters he wrote to his family in New England, most of them sent in 1862-1863 during his war service. It also contains a letter from his commanding officer, and a short biographical document.
Dates:
1860-1873, undated
L. W. Shepherd letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1263
Abstract
A letter dated 6 December 1863, from a camp near Dalton, Georgia, to S. D. Cabaniss, Huntsville attorney.
Dates:
1863 December 6
Joe Simpson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1276
Overview
Documents pertaining to Simpson's personal and professional life.
Dates:
unknown
T. Julian Skinner papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1281
Abstract
This collection consists primarily of correspondence, financial records, forms and activity reports which Skinner created as manager of the Forensic Council, a debating club at the University of Alabama, from 1933 to 1934.
Dates:
1931 - 1949; Majority of material found within 1933 - 1934
James Q. Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1290
Overview
Contains a certificate from the Marion Military Institute, 1898, letters of correspondence 1892 -1939, financial receipts, newspaper clippings, telegrams 1918, legal documents from his election time period as Attorney General of Alabama 1918-1930, personal papers, notes and remarks as his time as judge 1930-1940's.
Dates:
unknown
Robert Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4096
Overview
The Robert Smith papers contain correspondence between Robert Smith and his family during his military training in 1942 and his deployment to England and France in 1944 during World War II.
Dates:
1942-1956
Septima Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1296
Overview
Notes (research and school) on Biology, 1926, an address book, telegrams, receipts, notecards/research notes, a catalyst of a bug, photos, postcards, scrapbook of newspaper clippings and photos related to biology, programs and bulletins related to science. Also includes Martha Sue Garr papers and Dr. Robert S. Hodges personal and scientific papers, as well as the Unit Museum Plan file for the Alabama Museum of Natural History.
Dates:
circa 1965
Sidney Smith Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4095
Overview
The Sidney Smith family papers contain the business records, including work-related blueprints and material delivery receipts, for Sidney A. Smith during his career as a plumber from 1921 to 1955.
Dates:
1920-1955
Wilhelmine M. Easby-Smith letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0467
Overview
Two letters, dated 9 and 15 June 1896, to James H. Fitts, regarding a portrait of Easby-Smith's husband, William Russell Smith, given to the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1896 June 9, 15
Sons of the American Revolution, James "Horseshoe" Robertson Chapter (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1202
Abstract
Correspondence, membership lists, bank deposits, programs of chapter meetings, genealogical worksheets, and newspaper clippings relating to the Tuscaloosa chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution and biographical sketches of James Robertson, for whom the chapter was named.
Dates:
1946-1960; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1959
Southern Alabama Emigration and Development Company letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0002
Overview
Letters of this Chicago, Illinois, based company to their agents in Montgomery, Alabama, concerning land development projects in southern Alabama in the late nineteenth century.
Dates:
1897
Sue Spencer Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1323
Overview
This collection chiefly consists of correspondence from Sue Spencer to her family and friends during the time she spent with her husband and three sons living in Africa, an experience from which she published African Creeks I Have Been Up. Both the manuscript and galley proofs are included in this collection, as well as notes and observations for Mrs. Spencer's other publications, and newspaper clippings and other items related to Mrs. Spencer's life as an...
Dates:
1956 - 2008; Majority of material found within 1956 - 1964
Emma Gelders Sterne papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0099
Overview
Contracts and business correspondence related to the publication of books written by Alabama author Emma Gelders Sterne.
Dates:
1934-1953
Donald W. Stewart papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1349
Overview
Contains the papers of state congressman.
Dates:
circa 1975 - 1990
J. F. Stewart letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3802
Overview
Lletters to various friends and family members
Dates:
1845-1899
George Stiggins papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1352
Overview
Contains a copy of "The Stiggins Manuscript", which was copied from the original historical narrative in the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Collection, 1901. This is a narrative of the genealogical traditions and down fall of the Ispocoga or Creek Indians, written by one of its members of the tribe.
Also contains letters of correspondence and a copy of Alabama Highways vol. VII, July - August 1933.
Dates:
unknown
W. H. Storey Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4048
Overview
Correspondence, diaries, educational materials, and genealogical documents of Storey and his family
Dates:
1890-1935
Oliver Day Street papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1358
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence and other papers. They concern his activities as a candidate for Congress (1898 and 1902), as U. S. district attorney for northern Alabama (1907-1914), special assistant to the U. S. Attorney General (1914-1920), chairman of the Republican executive committee for the Seventh Congressional District (1904-1908), delegate to two Republican national conventions (1912 and 1916), and member of the Republican National Committee (1916-1920).
Dates:
1888-1944
W. C. Strong letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0132
Abstract
A January 1927 letter by W. C. Strong of Mobile, Alabama, recounting the circumstances surrounding the death of Robert F. Bell, Jr., an employee of the Munson Steam Ship Company docks who died on the job in late 1926.
Dates:
1927
J. D. Sutter papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1372
Overview
Contains the plans, letters, lists of supplies needed, and other personal notes of J.D. Sutter, a landscape contractor in Birmingham, Alabama, from the late 1920s through the 1950s.
Dates:
1928-1961
Milton Swift letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1375
Overview
Two letters written from Swift to his sister Lucinda Baker, discussing living and working in Tuscumbia, Alabama, as well as health issues of his family and friends.
Dates:
1827,1834
Alma Bishop Williams Tanglewood materials
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0165
Overview
Material about this Hale County, Alabama, plantation house and land, including: books, correspondence, writings, newpaper clippings, photos, maps, genealogical records, and blueprints.
Dates:
1860-1973
Thomas Haughey letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0648
Overview
Letter written by Thomas Haughey of Alabama, dated December 28, 1868 and written from Washington, DC, to Ben Perley Poone providing a short biographical sketch. Mentions having to live in the north during the Civil War due to his anti-secessionist ideals.
Dates:
1868 December 28
Henrietta Thompson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1403
Abstract
This collection contains the papers and correspondence of an University of Alabama Home Economics professor.
Dates:
1910-1966
Jeanie Thompson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2511
Overview
Contains the papers of Alabama author and publisher, Jeanie Thompson. Includes poems and drafts by Thompson, as well as her Master's thesis and books How to Enter the River, Witness, and Litany for a Vanishing Landscape. There are no special restrictions placed on access to the Jeani Thompson papers, although literary and copyrights to her published and unpublished writings have not been...
Dates:
1974-1977
Edward Dorr Tracy correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1421
Abstract
Copies of correspondence between Tracy and Clement C. Clay, Tracy and his wife, and others. The originals are held by the Perkins Library, Duke University.
Dates:
1861-1863
Russell F. Trask letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1993
Abstract
Letters written mainly to Russell F. Trask, E.M. 1/c aboard the U.S.S. Apollo (A.S. 25) by his wife, LeElda “Lee” Trask of Wausau, Marathon County, Wisconsin. Some of the letters are written to Trask by his mother and other family member. Twenty-eight of the letters are written to Lee by Trask.
Dates:
1945
Albert J. Tully letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1425
Abstract
A series of typed letters sent to family and friends by this Mobile, Alabama, resident describing his and his immediate family's experiences during and following Hurricane Frederick, which hit Mobile September 12-13, 1979.
Dates:
1979-1980
Julia Strudwick Tutwiler papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1450
Abstract
Family correspondence, poetry, civic documents, family tree, minutes from board of trustees (Alabama Normal College).
Dates:
1807 - 1970
Union Parish records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1463
Overview
Contains records and letters of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Uniontown, Alabama form 1845-1900.
Dates:
1850-1955
United Confederate Veterans, Camp Wilcox, letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1468
Overview
Letter in memory of James Oscar Jefferies, who was a member of the organization
Dates:
1923 July 13
United Daughters of the Confederacy, Amelia Gayle Gorgas Chapter, records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1469
Abstract
Records of this Tuscaloosa chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, including meeting minutes; a 1942 scrapbook; newspaper articles; an essay titled "A Sketch of the Life of General Josiah Gorgas;" and correspondence concerning the chapter.
Dates:
1942-2010
United Daughters of the Confederacy, Arkansas Division, Confederate veterans' documents
Collection
Identifier: W-0034
Overview
Typescript copies of legal and financial documents filed in Arkansas between 1848 and 1873, as well as typescript copies of letters, diaries, and military service accounts written primarily by Confederate soldiers. The legal documents are mainly deeds of conveyance, tax records, and deeds for swampland.
Dates:
1848-1941
Adrian Sebastian Van de Graaff Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1493
Abstract
This collection contains plantation ledgers, law notes, and personal and business correspondence of Adrian Sebastian Van de Graaff between 1882 and 1917. It also includes a scrapbook on Robert Van de Graaff's accelerator made in 1966 by Mrs. Welch's Fourth Grade class at Northington Elementary School, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
1832 - 1967; Majority of material found within 1898 - 1917